Dear Jay, Yeah, you're right, self-report data is not entirely accurate. However, as I have stated before, self-report data can yield some useful information....
Many of us may limit our reading to what we perceive is 'good' information, and neglect new information that is more difficult to assess, especially if it...
James Kohl ... Too me, epigenetics seems a lot like a "throw-back" to environmental explanations for everything. AFAIK, epigenetics has not been proved to ...
Jay, I see that this was, indeed, published in 2005, which is relevant to me. It's pretty pricey, so I'd need some sort of assurance that it's worth my time...
Leif Ekblad: Not so with human-only behaviors. Here we instead try to squeeze behaviors as "human universals", and minority behaviors are viewed as diseased,...
Sonny Williams: I want to once again reiterate my position regarding the currency of the scientific literature that finds itself on my reading list. My time...
Leif Ekblad: My belief is that the single-origin of humans is not a correct model of human evolutionary history. Jay R. Feierman: I don't think there is such a...
Jay R. Feierman: It may be the pup retrieval instinct by which pups are carried has to have been exercised earlier in ontogeny with items other than pups to be...
I have a draft for comment of the last chapter of the edited book, The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion, Praeger,...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28angi.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin The Unappreciated, Holding Our Lives in Balance By NATALIE ANGIER If you...
Nature Neuroscience 11, 1271 - 1282 (2008) Published online: 12 October 2008 | doi:10.1038/nn.2207 Functional organization of the transcriptome in human brain ...
Provided by University of California - San Diego http://www.physorg.com/news144407665.html When You Look at a Face, You Look Nose First (PhysOrg.com) -- While...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users Action comprehension in non-human primates: motor simulation or inferential...
Source: PLoS One [Open Access] http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003502 The Multisensory Attentional Consequences of Tool Use: A...
Dear Jay, Steve, and jamesfrancisd, I just found this one when I opened Yahoo's home page a few minutes ago. It's from Reuters. Steve, I think this is right...
Leif Ekblad: Yes, but what I mean is that different polymorphisms might have a different evolutionary history. When you do a traditional phylogenetic tree, and...
Jay, Environmental stressors include those from the social environment that impact hypothalamic GnRH pulsatility via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. I...
Ron, "Europe's largest matchmaking service for singles wanting a committed relationship released results of the poll" - Self reports about hypothetical...
I just found some puzzling information below from the article that started this thread. At the end, it states: "More than half saw the appeal of a groomed,...
Simon Gadbois: I can't resist pointing-out an epistemic contradiction. How can an ethologist that identifies himself as a "traditional/ classical ethologist"...
With apologies to "Doctor House" and Jason, who will probably claim these neurobiologists are "mentalists," I forward this very interesting article regarding...
Here's what I recently wrote in summary of epigenetics, and which contains the rat studies to which Leif refers: "Epigenetic Modifications The brain develops...
Jay, I appreciate your opinion regarding the value of "classic bio-behavioral literature," but I hold a different opinion, primarily because of time...
http://www.hhmi.org/news/ehlers20081031.html Motor Molecule for Memory Identified Storing memories in the brain is a physical process that requires some...
You needn't be. The questions are fairly meaningless because every measure of male attractiveness, no matter how seemingly different, is a related aspect of...
Simon Gadbois: I can't resist pointing-out an epistemic contradiction. How can an ethologist that identifies himself as a "traditional/classical ethologist" be...
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